On the 14th September 1950, the cargo plane “Geysir” crashed into Iceland’s largest glacier, Vatnajökull (vat-na-yer-kutl, no, not the one which stopped all the planes in 2010). Operated by Loftleiðir, which went on to become Flugleiðir and then the present-day Icelandair, this aircraft was flying from Luxembourg to Reykjavík for a refuelling stop before flying to its final destination.

One of the main themes of IndieWebCamp UK 2014 was a heavy push for TLS support on our personal sites, mainly thanks to the eternal patience and knowledge of Tim Retout. A large proportion of the participants either got TLS working on their site for the first time or upgraded their support to remove vulnerabilities and support snazzy extra features like perfect forward secrecy.

2014 bought the latest evolution of the festival of luthiers which started at St. Chartier before moving to Chateau d’Ars, and is now Le Son Continu. This year I was particularly excited because of the chance to meet Marcus Weseloh and try out his MidiGurdy.

When consistently failing to synchronise orbit and dock got boring, I started installing mods and building whatever nonsense their parts inspired. KAS confused me a little at first (what use is a grappling hook on a rocket?), but adding in Hooligan Labs’ Airships, B9 Aerospace’s cargo holds and Firespitter’s propulsion parts results in some really fun craft.

Superfeedr has this awesome feature allowing you to subscribe to fragments of an HTML page rather than the whole thing — perfect for cases where the publisher of the HTML page doesn’t send PubSubHubbub pings to let the hub know when content has changed, as this forces the hub to poll the content and notify subscribers on even the smallest change to the content.

Classic microformats have been serving the web community’s need to extend HTML’s expressive power since 2004. Through an evolutionary, open, rigorous community process and human-first design principles, structured use of the class and rel attributes have paved the cowpaths of publishing data about people, places, events, reviews, products and more.

Reykjavík successfully held it’s third cryptoparty last night, as part of the Tor developer conference happening here all week. Tor developers joined people from the local pirate party, universities and hackerspace to discuss and teach crypto technologies with anyone interested.

If you’ve never done any microcontroller programming, start with an arduino.cc. It’s the best way of getting started with embedded hardware programming.

If for whatever reason you’re determined to use PICs (cost, availability of free samples, you already had a bunch of them, etc.), you should get a pickit3 and use the netbeans-derived MPLAB X to develop, program and debug your devices.

But if like me you’re in the weird position of having a bunch of PICs, a Chinese knockoff pickit2 and a strong dislike of Java, here’s how to set up a *minimal* C development environment on a Mac.

The third Hurdy Gurdy and Bagpipe weekend took place earlier this month at Halsway Manor, Somerset — as someone who’s had the good fortune of attending both of the previous ones, I can attest that these events just keep getting better and better.

(video+transcript) Squarespace doesn’t yet add rel=me to links to connected accounts, and even if/when they do you may still want to add support for other authentication methods like SMS or Persona. Follow these steps to be able to log in using a squarespace site.

Indie Web Camp and by extension Indieauth and the wiki act as diagnostic tools which, by not compromising on their principles, expose UX flaws further up in the chain, and make fixing them a practical necessity rather than an idealistic desire.